San Jose Earthquakes fall to NYCFC 2-1

An early goal from the Earthquakes’ Yeferson Quintana was overcome by two second-half strikes from New York City FC to defeat San Jose 2-1 on Saturday night at Avaya Stadium.

Quintana headed home Magnus Eriksson’s corner in the third minute to give San Jose a dream start. However, the Quakes soon found themselves on the back foot against New York.

“That’s also quite normal in a game that when you score an early goal and they put pressure, so it was absolutely not the purpose in the game plan,” said San Jose head coach Mikael Stahre.

In the second half, NYCFC’s Anton Tinnerholm and Maximiliano Moralez scored to steal the full three points on the road.

“It’s good to get that lead, but once we get that goal we need to make sure we need to find the right way to correct the path and fix that because we seem to let up goals in bunches,” commented Quakes forward Chris Wondolowski.

“I think currently they’re the best team in the league,” explained San Jose defender Florian Jungwirth. “We knew before that it was going to be a good fight, but we took the early lead which was really good and we fought them in a good way.”

San Jose has now dropped two games after winning their season opener. The Earthquakes travel next Saturday to take on the Philadelphia Union.